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Re: let's kill svn:externals

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2003-07-28 20:32:24 CEST

Branko Čibej wrote:

> Coming in late for lack of time, but ...
>
> -1
>
> People depend on svn:externals. We should not remove that feature
> without a replacement.

Oh, since I appear to have neglected to respond, I'm fine with CMike's
proposed means of dealing with this issue. If we can avoid having to
special case handling of externals everywhere except export and checkout
by teaching svn to allow directories in it's working copies that live in
other repositories, then I can live with it.

-garrett

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